[grooverider]

Hi,

for starters I have to say that your Javascript editor is one of the nicest I have seen so far. So in my opion this seems to be a great starting point for further enhancements. There are several features which almost every editor l know lacks, which would be:

OO Support as mentioned in http://www.myeclipseide.com/PNphpBB2+file-viewtopic-t-3315-highlight-javascript.html.
I.e., recognition of prototype classes in the outline view.

Enhancement of code completion: parameters for standard objects and for self created custom classes.

Error checking (missing semicolons, unknown variables etc…)

Javascript-Debugging

Manual or automatic linking of depending javascript files (in my case classes) for syntax/function/… checking.

Wizards for class creation, just have a look at standard java features….

There are definitely SEVERAL more features which would simplify javascript programming which I have not covered…

These capabilities of javascript are, as I see in the quoted threads, not known to everyone, but everybody you who had the job to implement a javascript application of a greater scale will agree that these features would be “a gift of god”, and as far as I know this is a gap in the market as well, what would catapult your product in a great scale, i.e. all the faceless and suffering javascript programmers would have a new hope 😀

[Riyad Kalla]

I think progression for the JS editor will be natural and smooth as AJAX development gets more and more prevelant. We appreciate the list you have given, it gives us a idea what to focus on.

[blaplante]

I notice your mention of AJAX in your recent post about the JavaScript editor. I am asking around to see what others are using for AJAX and I wanted to invite you to check out my open source tool called XOscript. Feel free to join the http://groups-beta.google.com/group/xoscript discussion or shoot me an e-mail personally. Your post sounds like you have code responsibilities similar to what prompted me to write the API in the first place.

Bryan LaPlante
bryan@xoscript.org
http://www.xoscript.org/

[visigate]

Well done, grooverider. The features you asked for are very important for devolopers in javascript. Especally the Outline window has do show extended methods of Objects. The prototype – model is really an imortant feature!

[Christian Müller]

I just recently started to use JS more extensivly then dropping a litte function here and there.
Unfortunately the Editor just shows some declared Variables. This reduces the Editor to simple highlighting …

Most needed, is the above requested listing of prototypes in the outline. Same, but syntactically different:

var Obj = {
    myFunc: function() {
    }
} 

[Riyad Kalla]

Agreed,
We are going to start working on this after 4.1 is released Monday. I don’t know if the work will make it into the 5.0 release, but there will be many more enhancements.

[Christian Müller]

Your response-time is record-breaking as usual ^^
I’m looking foreward to Monday (since i love every new release), and do hope for JS-Editor-Enhancements in forthcoming Betas/Milestones.

If it was written in PHP, i would offer my help *g*

[Scott Anderson]

More work went into the editor between 4.1M2 and 4.1GA. Please give the latest one a shot and let us know what you think.

[Christian Müller]

Validation and StyleWarnings are new to me. They should proof usefull.
Code-Completion is neat (but limited) as before.

As Standard-User i couldn’t yet look at the Debugger (how to upgrade a subscription? ^^).

At the moment i stick to to interAkt’s JSEclipse, but just for two reasons:
> It recognizes prototype-Functions
> Code-Completions show (wildly) more Names

Missing typing things (goes for both Edtors ^^):
> Closing ‘ (or “)
> Completing JavaDoc when typing /**

[Riyad Kalla]

As Standard-User i couldn’t yet look at the Debugger (how to upgrade a subscription? ^^).

Email subscriptions@genuitec.com with a request to upgrade your subscription, they can help process that.

[kzettel]

@Guradia wrote:

Most needed, is the above requested listing of prototypes in the outline.

I would also like this feature.

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